vegan recipes

Ful Medames, Harissa Roast Tomatoes & Pickled Chilli Salsa
Ful Medames, Harissa Roast Tomatoes & Pickled Chilli Salsa

Ful Medames, Harissa Roast Tomatoes & Pickled Chilli Salsa excerpted from Centerpiece: Bold, vibrant recipes to put vegetables in the spotlight by Helen Graham. Photography by Yuki Sugiura.

Centerpiece: Bold, vibrant recipes to put vegetables in the spotlight by Helen Graham

A celebration of bold, vibrant vegetarian dishes designed to inspire, delight and put vegetables exactly where they belong: centre stage.

Drawing inspiration from the rich flavours of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Helen Graham‘s Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, this cookbook features 100 inventive, vegetable based recipes that will transform your table. With accessible ingredients and simple methods, Graham’s flavour packed combinations of spices, herbs and sauces elevate vegetables into something truly showstopping.

What’s Inside

The Meal Before the Meal
Mushrooms with Tamari & Pomegranate Skewers
Halloumi Ricotta Fritters with Spiced Lemon ‘Honey’

The Main Event
Harissa Roast Carrots, Mango Labneh & Mint
Hispi Cabbage with Date Butter & Tahini

On the Side
Potato Salad with Basil Zhoug & Coconut Crunch
Hawaij Roast Potatoes with Preserved Lemon Roast Shallots

Something Sweet
Za’atar & Cherry Chocolate Refrigerator Cake Bars
Poppy Seed & Orange Blossom Babka

About Helen Graham

Helen Graham was Executive Chef at the renowned London restaurant Bubala for five years, following roles at critically acclaimed restaurants including The Palomar and The Barbary, as well as the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen.

Praise for Helen Graham

Meera Sodha: “Helen’s recipes are the most exciting thing to have happened to vegetables since Ottolenghi.”

Anna Jones: “Original, do-able, unquestionably delicious vegetable recipes. I love this book.”

Jay Rayner: “Helen Graham has a thrillingly unique way with flavours, which makes you look at familiar ingredients anew. Her bold plant based cookery takes the Middle Eastern repertoire and shakes it by the scruff of the neck.”

Yotam Ottolenghi: “Helen carries the torch for all the ingredients I love most. Vegetables behaving exactly as they should. A cook after my own heart.”

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Apple Cannoli
Apple Cannoli

Apple Cannoli, Acorn: Vegetables Re-Imagined: Seasonal Recipes from Root to Stem by Shira Blustein and Brian Luptak. Photography by Gabriel Cabrera.

Acorn: Vegetables Re-Imagined: Seasonal Recipes from Root to Stem

From practical to playful, inspired recipes that reveal the hidden potential of plants

At the award-winning restaurant, The Acorn, plants are celebrated: explored, enhanced, coaxed with creativity, and dressed for a night of being the center of attention and the phenomenal focus of every plate. In their first cookbook, Shira Blustein and Brian Luptak—The Acorn’s owner and chef—share their truly unique recipes, highlighting the endless possibilities that come when cooking with the seasonal and wild-crafted ingredients gifted to us by nature. Defying categorization, with dishes that are anything but predictable, this cookbook will leave even the staunchest of meat-eaters satisfied.

The recipe chapters are structured by season, with an Essentials chapter at the start of the book—full of pickles, vinegars, oils, and plant-based alternatives—and a Cocktails chapter at the back. All the recipes are broken into components, and range from the simple but sublime Spring Radishes with Ashed Spring Onion Almond Sauce, Fried Garlic Scapes or Stinging Nettle Soup, to the intriguing Fried Zucchini Blossoms with Fermented Zucchini Purée and Apricot Chili Sauce, Smoked Caramelized Parsnip and Potato Pâté, or Squash and Chanterelle Gnocchi. And the recipes focus on minimizing waste and maximizing the potential of each plant—as the stems of one recipe become the pickled star of another.

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Baja Tacos with Salsa Fresca and Chipotle Cream
Baja Tacos with Salsa Fresca and Chipotle Cream

Baja Tacos with Salsa Fresca and Chipotle Cream from Wait, That’s Vegan?!, photography by Alex Shytsman.

Wait, that's vegan?Seasoned vegan chef Lisa Dawn Angerame, founder of Lisa’s Project: Vegan, has developed incredibly tasty, shockingly hearty and amazingly accurate vegan versions of all those meat, fish and dairy dishes you still crave. With Lisa’s savvy plant-based meals, eating vegan will never again mean giving up the flavours you love. Recipes include Carrot Lox, Baja Tacos, Crabless Cakes, Lentil Bolognese, Meatless Meatballs, Chickpea Scampi, Crispy Tempeh Bacon BLTs, Eggless Egg Salad, and The Beet Burger.

This mouthwatering collection of recipes will have you whipping up such creamy, decadent and rich meals that you’ll have to stop and ask yourself: Wait, that’s vegan?!

Wait, That’s Vegan?!: Plant-Based Meatballs, Burgers, Steaks and Other Dishes You Thought You’d Never Eat Again! is available at Amazon.com and Indigo.ca.

Baja Tacos with Salsa Fresca and Chipotle Cream

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Key Lime Pie
Key lime Pie

Key lime Pie, Raw Food, Photography by Brigitte Sporrer

A raw food diet consists of vegan dishes made without using canned, refined, or chemically processed food, or heating anything above 118°F (48°C). This means that ingredients retain key nutrients that can be otherwise lost during the cooking process. It’s also a great way to get more fruits and vegetables into your diet, and, by its nature, is low in trans fats, saturated fats, and preservatives. (more…)

All-in-One Roasted Tomato & Bay Orzo with Black Pepper
Tomato Orzo

Photography by David Loftus

What could be simpler than an array of vegetables, a few minutes, and 1 pan?

For 30 minutes or less to about an hour, these 75 vegetarian and vegan recipes from author Rukmini Iyer let your oven do all of the work. Simply pop your vegetables into the oven and then serve! (more…)

Pineapple Fried Rice
Pineapple Fried Rice

Photography by Sasha Gill

When Sasha Gill went vegan, she wasn’t about to leave her family’s home-cooked favourites behind. Pad Thai without fish sauce? Curry without ghee? In East Meets Vegan, Sasha proves that Asian cooking can be plant-based—as well as easy, affordable, and delicious! Here are:

  • Veganized favourites: Spring rolls, red bean pancakes, shiitake ramen, mango lassis
  • Can’t-believe-it’s-vegan twists: Tandoori cauliflower “wings,” pineapple fried rice, jackfruit biryani, “butter chicken,” a sushi feast to feed a crowd
  • Mix-and-match pairings: Combine leftovers for your own take on Asian fusion.

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Blood Orange and Beet Salad with Fennel and Walnuts
Blood Orange and Beet Salad with Fennel and Walnuts

Photography © Dorling Kindersley

Not a fan of tofu? Don’t worry: this vegan cookbook is packed with 150 healthy, delicious recipes that will appeal to adults and children alike, using grains, pulses, and other natural meat- and dairy-free alternatives as base ingredients. You’ll find options for every meal of the day, whether you’re looking for quick lunchbox ideas for vegan kids or preparing a big dinner for the whole “multivore” family.

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Chestnut Layer Cake with Hazelnut Nougat
Chestnut Layer Cake with hazelnut nougat

Photography by Brigitte Sporrer

Want tasty vegan, vegetarian, eggless, or dairy-free bakes? This book is packed with vegan baking recipes that are quick, simple, and delicious.

Authors Daniela Lais and Jérôme Eckmeier are longtime vegans with a passion for cooking, teaching you to bake irresistibly good treats such as gooey vegan brownies, light and fluffy vegan pancakes and eggless cakes, or a smooth and creamy vegan “cheesecake.”

Use their clever tips to avoid disappointing, dry, or unrisen results, and follow their instructions to make your own everyday vegan substitutions for mainstream baking ingredients such as cream cheese and buttermilk. Even if you’re a beginning baker, Easy Vegan Baking will help you triumph in the kitchen.

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Mostly Raw Lasagna
Vegan Lasagna

Photography by Megan Sadd

With 30-Minute Vegan Dinners, Megan Sadd, of the popular plant-based blog Carrots & Flowers, shows how anyone can enjoy incredible plant-based meals every night of the week.

This inventive cookbook reveals the secrets to cooking dinners that you crave―the kind that comfort, nourish and inspire you, without a ton of work. With every recipe clocking in under 30 minutes (prep included!), anyone can enjoy incredible plant-based meals every night of the week. 

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Tiramisu
Tiramisu

Photography by Simon Smith and Peter O’Sullivan

Vegans and vegetarians everywhere will have the best holiday period ever with Gaz Oakley’s fantastic alternatives to the traditional turkey and trimmings. Gaz is an expert in bold flavours and textures, so everyone can enjoy a spectacular centrepiece and amazing food throughout the festive season.

Gaz talks you through the menus and the planning, from Christmas morning breakfast like Sweet Potato Waffles and Tofu Benedict, through to a show-stopping lunch with the likes of Ultimate Christmas Wellington, “Turkey” Roast and Festive Nut Roast Wreath served with all the trimmings: “No Pigs” in Blankets, Hasselback Potatoes and Fluffy Yorkshire Puddings—all rounded off with spectacular dairy-free desserts including Boozy Tiramisu and “Brioche” Bread and Butter Pudding. There are vegan versions of mince pies, Pavlova, and even a “cheese” board for after! (more…)